Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.