Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

German diligence is actually endurance.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.