Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.