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Men Quotes by Stefan Zweig
- Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
- for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.
- For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them…
- Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon…
- For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are…
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