In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

A child is an angel dependent on man

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.