Multatuli

"Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that."

"One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture"

"I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness."

"The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do."

"Since I have the obligation to take care of the needs of my family, I have decided to use a talent which, I believe, has been given to me. I am a poet… Phew! You know, reader, what I and all sensible people think about that."