No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

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.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.