Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

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.

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

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.