A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman