Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.