No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

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

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

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

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.