The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.