There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

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

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

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

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.