“War is the father and king of all.”

“Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.”

“Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.”

“He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored”

“The seeing have the world in common.”

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”

“The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.”