The Tavern of the West

Last night, while I was in the tavern of the West, I was delighted by a witty thing a drinker said.

‘This place is not a church’, said he, ‘that you should find here pretty girls and organ music and sweet songs.

This is the tavern of the West, where wine has the effect of making things that are considered bad seem good,

We have weighed good and evil on another kind of scales. The scales of the Jews and the Christians were askew.

What is good in you will be bad, if you should break your fist. What is bad in you will be good, if you increase your might.

If you look carefully, you will find life is all hypocrisy. Whoever follows the path of truth and sincerity just ceases to exist.

Claims of truth and sincerity are only covers for hypocrisy. Our master says that brass must have on it a silver plate.

I have revealed to you the secret of success in life. Let no one know of it, if you care for success.