One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'