Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.