Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
From Heinrich Heine
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
When words leave off, music begins.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
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