» All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
» I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
» There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
» To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
» Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
» False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
» It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
» Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
» I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
» The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.