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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
All things are only transitory.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
On all the peaks lies peace.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
To create something you must be something.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
A useless life is an early death.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
An unused life is an early death.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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