Quotes by Heinrich Heine
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.
The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
