One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.