» Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
» Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
» The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
» Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
» Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
» It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
» You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
» Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
» These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
» Christianity makes suffering contagious.