In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
One does not kill by anger but by laughter.
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
Fear is the mother of morality.