“a prince should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated; and liberality leads you to both.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The best lack all conviction, . . . while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“In truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“But an infinity of passions may be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a small space.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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