I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

For love deceives the best of woman kind.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.