God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.