They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.