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

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?