had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.