‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.