Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.