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- What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
- Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
- The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
- People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
- To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
- Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it.…
- He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
- Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
- He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
- Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life…
- The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
- Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
- Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
- Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz…
- When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble,…
- A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
- Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it…
- Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with…
- Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance…
- Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
- Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
- 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…
- A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own…
- It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess…
- A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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