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- Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
- One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
- The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
- One lives but once in the world.
- Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
- There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
- Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
- When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
- To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
- The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents…
- Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
- It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
- To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
- In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
- No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,…
- Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the…
- Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most…
- To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
- The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has…
- Come my little one, and give me your hand.
- One must keep repeating the Truth.
- One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
- One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
- Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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