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

You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

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

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.