There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.