The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

German diligence is actually endurance.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.