The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.