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Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.