Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

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

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.