Servants honor their master by their service.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

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

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

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.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.