Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.