Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

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.

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.