I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
Yet he who grasps the moment’s gift, He is the proper man.
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
Power is neither male nor female.
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.