How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

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.

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

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger