This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

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.