Everybody Hates A Prodigy, Detests An Old

'tis An Easier Matter To Raise The Devil Than To Lay Him.

The Majority Of The Common People Loathe War And Pray For Peace; Only A Handful Of Individuals, Whose Evil Joys Depend On General Misery, Desire War.

Now I Believe I Can Hear The Philosophers Protesting That It Can Only Be Misery To Live In Folly, Illusion, Deception And Ignorance, But It Isn't -it's Human.

The Jewish Usurers Are Fast-rooted Even In The Smallest Villages, And If They Lend Five Gulden They Require A Security Of Six Times As Much. They Charge Interest, Upon Interest, And Upon This Again Interest, So That The Poor Man Loses Everything That He Owns.

Anything Which Causes Trouble Has Special Merit In Their Eyes.