Augustin

“The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is the monster.”
― Emil Cioran

“All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that dwells in others.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live by and Other Tales

“My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Humanity will blush to beget when it sees things as they are. Life without the sap of mistakes and deceptions, life ceasing to be a vogue, will find no clemency at the mind's tribunal. But finally, that mind itself will give way: it is only an excuse in the void, as life is only a prejudice.”
― Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay