Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

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

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.