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- I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested…
- Only law can give us freedom.
- 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…
- The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night;…
- A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
- How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what…
- It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually…
- 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…
- Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
- Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
- Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
- Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
- It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
- Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
- 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…
- Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best…
- Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
- Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
- I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a…
- The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
- True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only…
- There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
- When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
- Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past…
- A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
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