What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.