Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy... which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners i...n Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock shoul...d be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. I...t is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »