Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.