“In the end, when all the trappings of empire are stripped away, it is every man for himself. 1528”

“Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.”

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”

“Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.”

“Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.”

“Every man for himself, the devil for all.”