Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.