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

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.