“People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.”

“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”

“Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.”

“The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.”

“Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.”

“The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.”

“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.”