Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.