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.

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

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.