The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.