He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun--the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.