A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.