Prose talks and poetry sings.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

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

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

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!

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.