Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.[Искусство поднимает человека из личной жизни в жизнь всеобщую посредством.]
Any man worth his salt would like to have his own business.
Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people’s blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all.
An ignorant man thinks everything possible.
An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. In favour of war it may be said that it barbarises in both its above-named results, and thereby makes more natural; it is the sleep or the winter period of culture; man emerges from it with greater strength for good and for evil.
