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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.
To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?
Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.
Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.
Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...