“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
“Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.”
“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”
“Any man over forty is a scoundrel.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”