Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.