Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

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.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.