There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself – but you just can’t help it.

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.

You come to a point in your life when you really don’t care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.

The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I’m alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself … the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment … And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.