37 Quotations by Heinrich Heine
- 21. One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
- 22. Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
- 23. Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
- 24. Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
- 25. Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, ...
- 26. The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
- 27. The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and ...
- 28. The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
- 29. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn ...
- 30. The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if ...
- 31. There are more fools in the world than there are people.
- 32. Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
- 33. When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
- 34. Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
- 35. Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
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- 36. Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
- 37. While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faul ...
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