Alles, was ein Mensch sein muss, wird er im Bedarfsfall so schnell wie jeder andere auch lernen; und mag auch das Schicksal ihn seinen Platz wechseln… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Unsere körperlichen Übel zerstören sich selbst oder sie zerstören uns. Die Zeit oder der Tod sind unsere Heilmittel. Aber wir leiden umso mehr, je weniger wir zu leiden verstehen.

So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.

Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in a particular country a man is worth the sum he could be sold for in Algiers; another, by following this calculation, will find countries where a man is worth nothing, and others where he is worth less than nothing. They assess men like herds of livestock. According to them, a man has no value to the State apart from what he consumes in it. Thus one Sybarite would have been worth at least thirty Lacedaemonians. Would someone therefore hazard a guess which of these two republics, Sparta or Sybaris, was overthrown by a handful of peasants and which one made Asia tremble?