It once came into my head that if it were desired to reduce a man to nothing—to punish him atrociously, to crush him in such a manner that the most hardened murderer would tremble before such a punishment, and take fright beforehand—it would be necessary to give to his work a character of complete uselessness, even to absurdity.

Et même les gens de bien - il arrive parfois que le tyran les aime -, si avancés qu'ils soient dans sa bonne grâce, si brillantes que soient en eux la vertu et l'intégrité (qui, même aux méchants, inspirent quelque respect lorsqu'on les voit de près) ; ces gens de bien, dis-je, ne sauraient se maintenir auprès du tyran; il faut qu'ils se ressentent

If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us."