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.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.