Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.