The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
History is merely gossip
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.