The real genres: good and bad.

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

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

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.