He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Tag: Heinrich Heine
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The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man B?cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)
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.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.