Pity is treason.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

The king must die so that the country can live.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.