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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.
Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.
The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.