Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

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

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.