I know of no greater plague than this race, which on account of its deceit, usury and avarice is driving my subjects into beggary. Therefore as far as possible, the Jews are to be kept away and avoided.

Our lives and blood for our King Maria Theresa!

The school is and will always remain a matter of state.

I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own, and finally, also without any counsel, because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.

Every other is wholly other.

-- Jacques Derrida

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

-- Simone Weil

The purpose of human existence is to attain supreme happiness.

-- Farabi

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.

-- Albert Camus

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza