Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
It is good insofar as it is not evil.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
I’ve never been on good terms with God, but now I’m becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I’m almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband’s wife.
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
The first indication of a young person’s growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.