You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.