People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
Only bad generals need heroes.
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
The fate of man is man.
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
He who speaks of enemies, himself is the enemy.
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.