God is the same everywhere.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.