“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.”— Voltaire, Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They are not satisfied with simply despising and condemning their neighbour themselves, they want the condemnation to be universal and supreme: that is, that all men should rise as one against the condemned, and that even the offender’s own conscience shall be against him. Then only are they fully satisfied and reassured.”— Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible
