Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.