“This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.”

“The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.”

“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.”

“The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”

“Qu'il luise ou qu'il luiserne, L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.[26]”

“to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it.”

“In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.”