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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.