Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

“Listen, Stavrogin: to level the mountains is a good idea, not a ridiculous one.…”

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone an…”

“[The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that h…”

“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease…”