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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.