"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."
- Oscar Wilde
"The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche