I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

I can't agree; he's incapable of suffering for a long time,or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

The anachronism is the worst thing to use at the theatre.

There are truths but no truth.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.