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.

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

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.