Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.