Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

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.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.