The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.