So that the real lie of Satan may be flung back in the face of this blasphemer, so that by tears and torture we may earn the right to say to this man, 'You lie!' No agonies can be too great to buy the right to say to this accuser, 'We also have suffered.' "It is not true that we have never been broken.

We have been broken upon the wheel.

It is not true that we have never descended from these thrones.

We have descended into hell.

We were complaining of unforgettable miseries even at the very moment when this man entered insolently to accuse us of happiness.