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• The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without…
• Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
• War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a…
• Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself,…
• Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
• All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
• Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he…
• We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a…
• Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.…
• I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an…
• Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
• Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

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