Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

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.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.