The society of women is the foundation of good manners.
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.