I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.