I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
Love! Hate! Is there no third?
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
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?
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.
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.
It is good insofar as it is not evil.
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.
Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
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