Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Expediency often silences justice.