Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.