Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

In art, the best is good enough.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

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.