You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ...
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?