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

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.