“Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.”
“Are ideals attainable? Do we live to abolish death? No-we live to fear it and then again to love it, and just for death's sake it is that our spark of life glows for an hour now and then so brightly.”
“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”
“A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.”
“If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.”
“...for music alone can abolish differencesof language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”