Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.