Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.