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- The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
- The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in…
- It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us
- The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
- Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's…
- No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the…
- The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish…
- The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself,…
- It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more…
- Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
- Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within…
- Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down…
- If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer…
- What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
- A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
- Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his…
- Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
- The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
- As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
- One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and…
- When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he…
- In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
- Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
- We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
- A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the…
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