The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

To a poet silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Do not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

I know how to play my guard spot ... He can worry about the low post.

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