The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.