When one is polite in German, one lies.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe