We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.