He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Let there be truth between us.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.