Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

What you want is fame?Then note the price:All claimTo honor you must sacrifice.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.