22 Quotes by Ludwig Börne

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Let us have no care, but be glad of the approaching springtime of the peoples. Let us have no fear of the movement into the open.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.