Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.