 Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. |
| The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought. |
| There are more fools in the world than there are people. |
| Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. |
| Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. |
| Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. |
| Atheism is the last word of theism. |
| Of course God will forgive me; that's His job. |
| The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. |
| Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. |
| Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. |
| Oh, what lies there are in kisses. |
| True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. |
| In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. |
| Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. |
| Woman is at once apple and serpent. |
| The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. |
| I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. |
| I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day. |
| God will forgive me. It's his job. |
