Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

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

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

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.