“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne”

“Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.”

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”

“we are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.”