Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

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.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

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.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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