One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?