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

Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.