I have stopped being a misanthrope.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.