All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.