Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.