There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Theories pass. The frog remains.