Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.