I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Is who you are determined by what you do, or is what you do determined by who you are?

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

In fact, in order that we may never know ourselves, we hate silence and solitariness. Lest our conscience should carry on with us an unbearable repartee, we drown out its voice in amusements, distractions, and noise. If we met ourselves in others, we would hate them.

any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.

Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel