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

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.