Oh! Everything I loved!
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.