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

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

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

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

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.