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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.
All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.