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At the start of the 20th Century, commoners were second-class human beings yet certain middle-class officers became personal adjutants to the Kaiser;…Jews could claim no higher distinctions yet certain Jews were knighted and became friends with archdukes;…women had to observe traditional morality yet certain women could philander like a cavalry officer. Those were principles that would be labeled "hypocritical" today because we are so much more relentless: relentless, honest, and humorless, but these exceptions to aristocratic principles were even liked back then.— Joseph Roth
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