Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

To the Latin, cynicism and middle age are synonymous. Look at our politicians - they move through their careers from left to center to right, like the hands of a clock.

what you fear, you invite.

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.