After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.