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There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Every man is his own hell.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.