There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.