Music is the key to the female heart.

- Johann Gottfried Seume

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

- Johann Gottfried Seume

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

- Johann Gottfried Seume

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

- Johann Gottfried Seume

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

- Johann Gottfried Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Johann Gottfried Seume

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

- Johann Gottfried Seume

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

- Johann Gottfried Seume