Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.