Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy soul do thy lord?Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.(It is a comfort to the wretched...

Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is must we ever be.And,...

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;’Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent—That is my proper element.