"The greatest pleasure is to be hated."

"Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will."

"Nature has made us enemies of each other."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable."