You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.