Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?