A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

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.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.