I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.