"Almost every one flatters himself that he..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.”

“Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.”

“Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.”

“Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.”

“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!”

“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.”

“Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.”

“Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.”

“When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.”