The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.