A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.
... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.
Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.