paradox

Knowledge is power, and 'le pouvoir est essentiellement stupide (La Rochefoucauld)'

resentment

History consoles its victims with resentment, just in case they haven't suffered enough.

einmal ist keinmal

A sentence that is not worth reading twice is not worth writing once. It will already have been written and read before.

prose

In prose content is style

eternal recurrence

Each generation is distinguished by its own form of stupidity. It is discovered by the next generation, which uses it to license its own.

nature

As a stylist nature is unsurpassed: its art is for art's sake, and it conceals its art.