Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
From Franz Grillparzer
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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.
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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