German diligence is actually endurance.
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won’t catch up with yourselves.
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.
Praised be the good willing women who understand and take part in the fun – the body is an exacting beater, and even the heart is made of flesh.
Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.
Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.
I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their “yes” numerous times, especially the lazy ones.