No pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.
We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them…
To give the devil his due.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body; fear, therefore, nothing any more!
The only devil is Mother Nature…
The devil, who seldom lies dead in a ditch, but will have a finger in every pie.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Play with the devil and you get burned.
People both before and since have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
Neither necessity nor desire, but the love of power, is the demon of mankind. You may give men everything possible health, food, shelter, enjoyment but they are and remain unhappy and capricious, for the demon waits and waits; and must be satisfied.
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously? But it won’t—that’s the devil.