Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.