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.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

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.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.