The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.