Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.