They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.