Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.