We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.