To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We’re progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I’m almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.