Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.