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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.