What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

German diligence is actually endurance.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.