Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.