Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.