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- Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
- We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor…
- Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has…
- Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
- The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker…
- Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what…
- Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his…
- Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
- To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate…
- I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the…
- The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise…
- When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble,…
- Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
- A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
- The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
- A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own…
- A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him,…
- Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
- Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
- A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
- Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
- A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
- Man's restlessness makes him strive.
- Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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