Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.