Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.