To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
Oscar WildeNow it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Oscar WildeSociety takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
Oscar Wilde