German diligence is actually endurance.

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

Prose talks and poetry sings.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

A love that dies has never lived.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.