But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!