Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

My ideas are my whores.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.