How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.