Occupation: Writer Birth: January 15, 1791 Death: January 21, 1872
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require..
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else..
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present..
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given….
A love that dies has never lived..
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one..
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense..
A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake..
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a deci….
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills..
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson..
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality..
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light..
How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives..
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past..
Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy..
Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground..
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind make….
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun..
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: simplici….
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind..