All is but illusion and disaster.
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.