The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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