One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

The superfluous is very necessary.