Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.