I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

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

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.