A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

What a pair of spectacles is here!

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds wall; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist'.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime -- it even presupposes it.