“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

“In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God”

“A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”

“One must ask for death to know how good it is to live”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”