"To live as one likes is plebian..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.”

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”

“Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.”

“The order of things consents to virtue.”

“An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.”

“Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.”

“Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.”

“The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.”

“The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.”