The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

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

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.