Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.