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To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.
Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.
Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.