People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.