It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.

There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules.

Resulta difícil hablar de moral; lo que ha sucedido es que hemos inventado unos principios morales que ahora se hallan corrompidos, toda vez que no pueden ser puestos en práctica. Y cuando la moral se corrompe, entonces es peor que carecer de ella.

It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.