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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.
What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.
I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.