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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.
There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.
One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.