A love that dies has never lived.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.