"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many."

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

"It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."

"Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others."

"To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not."

"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

"Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited."

"A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about."

"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids"

"The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."