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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
We don't get to know anything but what we love.
After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
The solution of every problem is another problem
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
One must be something, in order to do something.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine
One must be something to be able to do something.
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Where there are no women there are no good manners
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.
Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it
All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
One spares old people just as one spares children.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.
Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority