One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.