Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry