“The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.”

“Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right."The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..."Sure, I know, it's true.But some truths are probably worse than lies.”

“Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.”

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”

“That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.”

“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”