It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.