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

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.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

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

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.