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- No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man…
- To have more, you must first be more.
- The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if…
- Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
- Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
- A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
- Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives…
- Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously…
- People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say…
- I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
- I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that…
- He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
- Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
- There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does…
- Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than…
- One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
- Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
- The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more…
- We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
- Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my…
- The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
- Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
- Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
- We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can…
- There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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