Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

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.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

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.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.