man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven
aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment
few people are likely to have read my book from beginning to end. They don’t have to, and I hope the chancellor didn’t.
a nation may beget its own barbarian invaders
the ceaseless unmasking of others led the unmasker into self-delusion
victory has defeated you
Everywhere we see that men do not go mad by dreaming.
do not seek love; merely seek to find all the barriers you have built within yourself against it
in words that arise amid the crashing fall of idols
loans without collateral are constantly being drawn on the future
no matter how much I wanted the Athenians to win in Sicily, they never seemed to be able to
for a thousand years in your sight is as yesterday when it is gone
And this huge Castle, standing here sublime,I love to see the look with which it braves,Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time,The lightning, the fierce wind, the trampling waves.
not a new truth, but a truth which was as old as the hills and as everlasting
of all the sunbeams that did ever shinethe very sweetest had to thee been given
there is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming
experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes
it’s a German legend.there’s always going to be a mountain in there somewhere
realize that your opinion of the world is also a confession of your character
it's only when you know something about a profession, I think, that you're timid
