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“If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue…” quote by Jean Paul — Download Open image

“If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.”

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What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has…

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has…

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There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

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Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

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In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

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It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some…

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What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

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