Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!