Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Great souls suffer in silence.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

The will of man is his happiness.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

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

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

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

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

To save all we must risk all.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

I am better than my reputation.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.