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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]