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.

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

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

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

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.