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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

Man,
the aristocrat amongst the animals.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Where words cease, there music begins.

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

No talent, but yet a character.
[Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

Atheism is the last word of theism.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

And once again we plighted our troth,
And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

Wherever people burn books, there, finally, they will also burn people.

What lies lurk in kisses.

Good Luck is a giddy maid,
Fickle and restless as a fawn;
She smooths your hair; and then the jade
Kisses you quickly, and is gone.

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy
death.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

The night comes stealing o'er me,
And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody.

God will forgive me; that's his business.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

So we keep asking, over and over
Until a handful of earth
Stops our mouths-
But is that an answer?

Thought is invisible nature.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

I live, which is the main point.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me ...

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle