“Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.”

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

There is no solitude in nature.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

We must bear what Heaven sends.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

Don’t let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Start thanking God that He’s fighting your battles, thanking Him that He’s making a way where you don’t see a way.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.