“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ”

“To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.”

“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”

“In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.”

“What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering”

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

“For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”