The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

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.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

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

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.