No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

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

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.