They talk like angels but they live like men.
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
Haste is of the Devil.
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.