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

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

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

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.