You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Life without music is no life at all.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.