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All Ages Have Said And Repeated That One Should Strive To Know One's Self. This Is A Strange Demand Which No One Up To Now Has Measured Up To And, Strictly Considered, No One Should. With All Their Study And Effort, People Are Directed To What Is Outside, To The World About Them, And They Are Kept Busy Coming To Know This And To Master It To The Extent That Their Purposes Require. . . . How Can You Come To Know Yourself? Never By Thinking, Always By Doing. Try To Do Your Duty, And You'll Know Right Away What You Amount To. And What Is Your Duty? Whatever The Day Calls For.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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All Ages Have Said And Repeated That One Should Strive To Know One's Self. This Is A Strange Demand Which No One Up To Now Has Measured Up To And, Strictly Considered, No One Should. With All Their Study And Effort, People Are Directed To What Is Outside, To The World About Them, And They Are Kept Busy Coming To Know This And To Master It To The Extent That Their Purposes Require. . . . How Can You Come To Know Yourself? Never By Thinking, Always By Doing. Try To Do Your Duty, And You'll Know Right Away What You Amount To. And What Is Your Duty? Whatever The Day Calls For.

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God Made Man Simple, But How He Changed And Got Complicated Is Hard To Say.

All Men Would Be Masters Of Others, And No Man Is Lord Of Himself.

Nature! We Are Enveloped And Embraced By Her, Incapable Of Emerging From Her And Incapable Of Entering Her More Deeply. Unbidden And Unwarned, She Receives Us Into The Circuits Of Her Dance, Drifting Onward With Us Herself, Until We Grow Tired And Drop From Her Arms.

Every Need Whose True Satisfaction Is Denied Leads By Necessity To Faith.

What Makes People Happy Is Activity; Changing Evil Itself Into Good By Power, Working In A God Like Manner.

Taste Is Only To Be Educated By Contemplation, Not Of The Tolerably Good But Of The Truly Excellent.

A Word Spoken Is A Terrible Thing When It Suddenly Utters What The Heart Has Long Allowed.

A King There Was Once Reigning, Who Had A Goodly Flea, Him Loved He Without Feigning, As His Own Son Were He!

Courage Is The Commitment To Begin Without Any Guarantee Of Success.

I Will Listen To Anyone's Convictions, But Pray Keep Your Doubts To Yourself.

Ohne Hast, Aber Ohne Rast. - Without Haste, But Without Rest.

Everything We Do Has A Result. But That Which Is Right And Prudent Does Not Always Lead To Good, Nor The Contrary To What Is Bad.

Marriage Is The Beginning And Pinnacle Of Civilization.

One Should Not Search For Anything Behind The Phenomena. They Themselves Are The Message.

What Dazzles, For The Moment Spends Its Spirit; Whats Genuine, Shall Posterity Inherit.

Thou Art In The End What Thou Art. Put On Wigs With Millions Of Curls, Set Thy Foot Upon Ell-high Rocks. Thou Abidest Ever--what Thou Art.

Sometimes Our Fate Resembles A Fruit Tree In Winter. Who Would Think That Those Branches Would Turn Green Again And Blossom, But We Hope It, We Know It.

Nothing Is More Consonant With Nature Than That She Puts Into Operation In The Smallest Detail That Which She Intends As A Whole.

He Who Does Not Stretch Himself According To The Coverlet Finds His Feet Uncovered.

To Think Is Easy. To Act Is Difficult. To Act As One Thinks Is The Most Difficult.

Children, Like Dogs, Have So Sharp And Fine A Scent That They Detect And Hunt Out Everything--the Bad Before All The Rest. They Also Know Well Enough How This Or That Friend Stands With Their Parents; And As They Practice No Dissimulation Whatever, They Serve As Excellent Barometers By Which To Observe The Degree Of Favor Or Disfavor At Which We Stand With Their Parents.

Rest Not Life Is Sweeping By Go And Dare Before You Die. Something Mighty And Sublime, Leave Behind To Conquer Time.

Science Arose From Poetry... When Times Change The Two Can Meet Again On A Higher Level As Friends.

We Are Never Deceived; We Deceive Ourselves.

Willing Is Not Enough, We Must Do.

A Distracted Existence Leads Us To No Goal

The Worst Is That The Very Hardest Thinking Will Not Bring Thoughts. They Must Come Like Good Children Of God And Cry, "here We Are." You Expend Effort And Energy Thinking Hard. Then, After You Have Given Up, They Come Sauntering In With Their Hands In Their Pockets. If The Effort Had Not Been Made To Open The Door, However, Who Knows When They Could Have Come.

If A Poet Would Work Politically, He Must Give Himself Up To A Party; And So Soon As He Does That, He Is Lost As A Poet.

If You Want To Reach The Infinite, Then Explore Every Aspect Of The Finite.

He Who Is Firm And Resolute In Will Molds The World To Himself.

Great Passions Are Incurable Diseases.

Incurable Disease

A Man's Manners Are A Mirror In Which He Shows His Portrait.

To Make An Epoch In The World, Two Conditions Are Manifestly Essential-a Good Head And A Great Inheritance.

Distance... Is Like Futurity. A Dim Vastness Is Spread Before Our Souls; The Perceptions Of Our Mind Are As Obscure As Those Of Our Vision... But Alas! When We Have Attained Our Object, When The Distant 'there' Becomes The Present 'here,' All Is Changed; We Are As Poor And Circumscribed As Ever, And Our Souls Still Languish For Unattainable Happiness.

Not Art And Science Only, But Patience Will Be Required For The Work.

Art And Science

Two Souls, Alas, Are Housed Within My Breast, And Each Will Wrestle For The Mastery There.

What You Have Inherited From Your Fathers, Earn Over Again For Yourselves, Or It Will Not Be Yours.

As Man Is, So Is His God. And Thus Is God Oft Strangely Odd.

And Step By Step, Along The Path Of Life, There's Nothing True But Heaven.

Piety Is Not A Goal But A Means To Attain Through The Purest Peace Of Mind The Highest Culture.

Don't Give Us Your Doubts, Gives Us Your Certainties, For We Have Doubts Enough Of Our Own.

We're Really Up Against It, We Poor Women: A Bachelor's A Hard Thing To Convert

To A Valet No Man Is A Hero. [ger., Es Gibt Fur Den Kammerdiener Keiner Helden.]

If You Wish To Advance Into The Infinite, Explore The Finite In All Directions.

Thought Expands, But Paralyzes; Action Animates, But Narrows.

Mathematics Has The Completely False Reputation Of Yielding Infallible Conclusions. Its Infallibility Is Nothing But Identity. Two Times Two Is Not Four, But It Is Just Two Times Two, And That Is What We Call Four For Short. But Four Is Nothing New At All. And Thus It Goes On And On In Its Conclusions, Except That In The Higher Formulas The Identity Fades Out Of Sight.

The Master Proves Himselin Recognizing His Limitations.

Man Can Only Endure A Certain Degree Of Unhappiness; What Is Beyond That Either Annihilates Him Or Passes By Him And Leaves Him Apathetic

Misunderstandings And Neglect Occasion More Mischief In The World Than Malice And Wickedness.

Precaution Is Better Than Cure.

If You Have Science And Art, You Also Have Religion; But If You Don't Have Them, You Better Have Religion.

To Have More, You Must First Be More.

One That Does Not Think To Highly Of Himself Is More Than He Thinks.

A Man May Twist As He Pleases, And Do What He Pleases, But He Inevitably Comes Back To The Track To Which Nature Has Destined Him.

In Art It's Not The Thinking That Does The Job, But Making.

Character - In Things Great And Small - Is Indicated When A Man (or Person) Pursues With Sustained Follow-through What He Feels Himself Capable Of Doing.

Two Souls Dwell, Alas! In My Breast.

Enjoy What You Can, Endure What You Must.

I Do Not Speak Of What I Cannot Praise.

Whatever Is The Lot Of Humankind I Want To Taste Within My Deepest Self. I Want To Seize The Highest And The Lowest, To Load Its Woe And Bliss Upon My Breast, And Thus Expand My Single Self Titanically And In The End Go Down With All The Rest.

If You Live Criticizing People, You Won't Have Time To Love Them.

Lay Hold Of Life With Both Hands, Whenever Thou Mayest Seize It, It Is Interesting.

Man Knows Himself Only Insofar As He Knows The World, Becoming Aware Of It If Only Within Himself, And Of Himself Self Only Within It. Each New Subject, Well Observed, Opens Up Within Us A New Organ Of Thought.

The Beginning Of Faith Is The Beginning Of Fruitfulness; But The Beginning Of Unbelief, However Glittering, Is Empty.

One Mind Is Enough For A Thousand Hands.

The Evil One Has Left, The Evil Ones Remain.

Gray Are All The Theories, But Green Is The Tree Of Life.

Devote Each Day To The Object Then In Time And Every Evening Will Find Something Done.

The Greatest Joy Of A Thinking Man Is To Have Searched The Explored And To Quietly Revere The Unexplored.

Out Of Moderation A Pure Happiness Springs.

The Ideal Of Beauty Is Simplicity And Tranquility.

Know Thyself? If I Knew Myself I Would Run Away.

Blood Is A Very Special Juice.

Do Not Give In Too Much To Feelings. A Overly Sensitive Heart Is An Unhappy Possession On This Shaky Earth.

Sensitive Person

It Is As Certain As It Is Strange That Truth And Error Come From One And The Same Source. Thus It Is That We Are Often Not At Liberty To Do Violence To Error, Because At The Same Time We Do Violence To Truth.

It Is A Very Hard And Troublesome Thing To Dispose Of Whole, Half, And Quarter-mistakes; To Sift Them And Assign The Portion Of Truth To Its Proper Place.

He Who Is And Remains True To Himself And To Others Has The Most Attractive Quality Of The Greatest Talent.

The Human Race Is A Monotonous Affair. Most People Spend The Greatest Part Of Their Time Working In Order To Live, And What Little Freedom Remains So Fills Them With Fear That They Seek Out Any And Every Means To Be Rid Of It.

There Are People Who Pay Attention To The Weaknesses Of Their Friends; That Is To No Avail. I Have Always Closely Watched And Profited From The Strengths Of My Adversaries.

With Knowledge Grows Doubt.

How Often Do I Lull My Seething Blood To Rest, For You Have Never Seen Anything So Unsteady, So Uncertain, As This Heart.

Whatever Necessity Lays Upon Thee, Endure; Whatever She Commands, Do.

Every Spoken Word Arouses Our Self-will.

Unlimited Activity, Of Whatever Kind, Must End In Bankruptcy.

The Art Of Living Rightly Is Like All Arts; It Must Be Learned And Practiced With Incessant Care.

There Are Two Things Children Should Get From Their Parents: Roots And Wings.

One Always Has Time Enough, If One Will Apply It Well.

The Credit Of Advancing Science Has Always Been Due To Individuals And Never To The Age.

All Truths Are Old, And All That We Have To Do Is Recognize And Utter Them Anew.

Instruction Does Much, But Encouragement Everything.

A Good Man, Through Obscurest Aspirations Has Still An Instinct Of The One True Way.

You Are Certainly Wrong To Compare Suicide ... With Great Accomplishments, Since It Cannot Be Considered As Anything But A Weakness. After All, It Is Easier To Die Than To Endure A Harrowing Life With Fortitude.

The Dear Good People Don't Know How Long It Takes To Learn To Read. I've Been At It Eighty Years, And Can't Say Yet That I've Reached The Goal.

What Is Part Of You, You Cannot Get Rid Of, Even If You Were To Throw It Away.

One Is Never Satisfied With The Portrait Of A Person That One Knows.

If You Have A Great Work In Your Head, Nothing Else Thrives Near It; All Other Thoughts Are Repelled, And The Pleasure Of Life Itself Is For The Time Lost.

It Seems To Me That Every Phenomenon, Every Fact, Itself Is The Really Interesting Object. Whoever Explains It, Or Connects It With Other Events, Usually Only Amuses Himself Or Makes Sport Of Us, As, For Instance, The Naturalist Or Historian. But A Single Action Or Event Is Interesting, Not Because It Is Explainable, But Because It Is True.

Three Things Are To Be Looked To In A Building: That It Stand On The Right Spot; That It Is Securely Founded; That It Be Successfully Executed.

To Appreciate The Noble Is A Gain Which Can Never Be Torn From Us.

Mystery Is Truth's Dancing Partner.

There Is Nothing More Fearful Than Imagination Without Taste. [ger., Es Ist Nichts Furchterlicher Als Einbildungskraft Ohne Geschmack.]

Beloved Brother, Let Us Not Forget That Man Can Never Get Away From Himself. [ger., Lass Uns, Geliebter Bruder, Nicht Vergessen, Dass Von Sich Selbst Der Mensch Nicht Scheiden Kann.]

If There Is Confusion In Your Head And In Your Heart, What More Do You Want! A Man Who No Longer Loves And No Longer Errs Should Have Himself Buried Straight Away.

There Is Nothing In Which People More Betray Their Character Than In What They Laugh At.

Quite Often, As Life Goes On, When We Feel Completely Secure As We Go On Our Way, We Suddenly Notice That We Are Trapped In Error, That We Have Allowed Ourselves To Be Taken In By Individuals, By Objects, Have Dreamt Up An Affinity With Them Which Immediately Vanishes Before Our Waking Eye; And Yet We Cannot Tear Ourselves Away, Held Fast By Some Power That Seems Incomprehensible To Us. Sometimes, However, We Become Fully Aware And Realize That Error As Well As Truth Can Move And Spur Us On To Action.

What Government Is The Best? That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves. [ger., Welche Regierung Die Beste Sei? Diejenige Die Uns Lehrt Uns Selbst Zu Regieren.]

To Have A Positive Religion Is Not Necessary. To Be In Harmony With Yourself And The Universe Is What Counts, And This Is Possible Without Positive And Specific Formulation In Words.

From Desire I Plunge To Its Fulfilment, Where I Long Once More For Desire.

So Much Has Already Been Said About Shakespeare That There Doesn't Seem To Be Anything More To Say; Yet It Is The Quality Of The Spirit That It Forever Stimulates The Spirit.

Nature Is So Perfect That The Trinity Couldn't Have Fashioned Her Any More Perfect. She Is An Organ On Which Our Lord Plays And The Devil Works The Bellows.

True Art Can Only Spring From The Intimate Linking Of The Serious And The Playful.

Know'st Thou The Land Where The Lemon-trees Bloom, Where The Gold Orange Glows In The Deep Thicket's Gloom, Where A Wind Ever Soft From The Blue Heaven Blows, And The Groves Are Of Laurel And Myrtle And Rose!

The Senses Do Not Deceive Us, But The Judgment Does.

Mannerism Is Always Longing To Have Done, And Has No True Enjoyment In Work. A Genuine, Really Great Talent, On The Other Hand, Has Its Greatest Happiness In Execution.

The Man Of Understanding Finds Everything Laughable.

Names Are But Noise And Smoke, Obscuring Heavenly Light.

The Fate Of The Architect Is The Strangest Of All. How Often He Expends His Whole Soul, His Whole Heart And Passion, To Produce Buildings Into Which He Himself May Never Enter.

And We Went Our Separate Ways Without Having Understood Each Other. As In This World Nobody Understands The Other Easily.

Mediocrity Has No Greater Consolation Than In The Thought That Genius Is Not Immortal.

Time Is My Estate: To Time I'm Heir.

Here Too It’s Masquerade, I Find: As Everywhere, The Dance Of Mind. I Grasped A Lovely Masked Procession, And Caught Things From A Horror Show… I’d Gladly Settle For A False Impression, If It Would Last A Little Longer, Though.

To The Person With A Firm Purpose All Men And Things Are Servants.

Water Its Living Strength First Shows, When Obstacles Its Course Oppose.

Each Traveler Should Know What He Has To See, And What Properly Belongs To Him, On A Journey.

What Matters In Art Is Not Thinking But Making.

To Hard Necessity Ones Will And Fancy Must Conform.

Is Not The Core Of Nature In The Heart Of Man?

The Artist Who Is Not Also A Craftsman Is No Good; But, Alas, Most Of Our Artists Are Nothing Else.

Everything Is Both Simpler Than We Can Imagine And More Entangled Than We Can Conceive.

Science Has Been Seriously Retarded By The Study Of What Is Not Worth Knowing And Of What Is Not Knowable.

The Best Benefit We Derive From History Is The Enthusiasm It Excites.

The World Is For Thousands A Freak Show; The Images Flicker Past And Vanish; The Impressions Remain Flat And Unconnected In The Soul. Thus They Are Easily Led By The Opinions Of Others, Are Content To Let Their Impressions Be Shuffled And Rearranged And Evaluated Differently.

What A Torment It Is To See So Much Loveliness Passing And Repassing Before Us, And Yet Not Dare To Lay Hold Of It!

He Who Does Not Know Foreign Languages Does Not Know Anything About His Own.

Is It Not Enough That We Cannot Make One Another Happy, Must We Also Rob One Another Of The Pleasures That Any Heart May Permit Itself Now And Then? And Name Me A Person Who In A Bad Mood Will Be Decent Enough To Hide It, To Bear It Alone, Without Destroying The Joy Around Him. Is It Not Rather An Inner Dissatisfaction With Our Own Unworthiness, A Dislike Of Ourselves That Is Always Associated With Envy Aggravated By Foolish Conceit? We See People Happy And Not Made Happy By Us, And That Is Unbearable.

Hypotheses Are Only The Pieces Of Scaffolding Which Are Erected Round A Building During The Course Of Construction, And Which Are Taken Away As Soon As The Edifice Is Completed.

Make The Most Of Time, It Flies Away So Fast; Yet Method Will Teach You To Win Time.

We Eagerly Get Hold Of A Law That Serves As A Weapon To Our Passions.

Sceptics Are Yet The Most Credulous.

We All Walk In Mysteries. We Are Surrounded By An Atmosphere About Which We Still Know Nothing At All.

He Who Wishes To Exert A Useful Influence Must Be Careful To Insult Nothing. Let Him Not Be Troubled By What Seems Absurd, But Concentrate His Energies To The Creation Of What Is Good. He Must Not Demolish, But Build. He Must Raise Temples Where Mankind May Come And Partake Of The Purest Pleasure.

The Misfortune In The State Is, That Nobody Can Enjoy Life In Peace, But That Everybody Must Govern; And In Art, That Nobody Will Enjoy What Has Been Produced, But That Every One Wants To Reproduce On His Own Account.

One Must Ask Children And Birds How Cherries And Strawberries Taste.

If Your Treat An Individual... As If He Were What He Ought To Be And Could Be, He Will Become What He Ought To Be And Could Be.

In All Our Academies We Attempt Far Too Much. ... In Earlier Times Lectures Were Delivered Upon Chemistry And Botany As Branches Of Medicine, And The Medical Student Learned Enough Of Them. Now, However, Chemistry And Botany Are Become Sciences Of Themselves, Incapable Of Comprehension By A Hasty Survey, And Each Demanding The Study Of A Whole Life, Yet We Expect The Medical Student To Understand Them. He Who Is Prudent, Accordingly Declines All Distracting Claims Upon His Time, And Limits Himself To A Single Branch And Becomes Expert In One Thing.

The Christian Religion, Though Scattered And Abroad Will In The End Gather Itself Together At The Foot Of The Cross.

Children Can Scarcely Be Fashioned To Meet With Our Likes And Our Purpose. Just As God Did Us Give Them, So Must We Hold Them And Love Them, Nurture And Teach Them To Fullness And Leave Them To Be What They Are.

English Plays, Atrocious In Content, Absurd In Form, Objectionable In Action, Execrable Englishtheatre.

A Resolution That Is Communicated Is No Longer Within Thy Power; Thy Attentions Become Now The Plaything Of Chance; He Who Would Have His Commands Certainly Carried Out Must Take Man By Surprise.

All That Is Transitory Is But A Metaphor.

We Must Always Change, Renew, Rejuvenate Ourselves; Otherwise, We Harden.

I Reverence The Individual Who Understands Distinctly What He Wishes; Who Unweariedly Advances, Who Knows The Means Conducive To His Object, And Can Seize And Use Them.

Our Senses Don't Deceive Us: Our Judgment Does

Difficulties Increase The Nearer We Get To The Goal.

Whatever You Can Do Or Dream, Begin It.

To Live Within Limits. To Want One Thing. Or A Few Things Very Much And Love Them Dearly. Cling To Them, Survey Them From Every Angle. Become One With Them - That Is What Makes The Poet, The Artist, The Human Being.

If You Want A Wise Answer, Ask A Reasonable Question.

Questions And Answers

There Is Not A Single Outward Mark Of Courtesy That Does Not Have A Deep Moral Basis.

If A Man Knows Where To Get Good Advice, It Is As Though He Could Supply It Himself.

The Most Difficult Thing Is What Is Thought To Be The Simplest; To Really See The Things Which Are Before Your Eyes.

If All These Devils Really Exist It Proves There Must Be Angels, Too.

To Measure Up To All That Is Demanded Of Him, A Man Must Overestimate His Capacities

The Force Of A Language Does Not Consist Of Rejecting What Is Foreign But Of Swallowing It.

Microscopes And Telescopes Really Confuse Our Minds.

The Heights Charm Us, But The Steps Do Not; With The Mountain In Our View We Love To Walk The Plains.

Shakespeare Is A Great Psychologist, And Whatever Can Be Known Of The Heart Of Man May Be Found In His Plays.

Nobody, They Say, Is A Hero To His Valet. Of Course; For A Man Must Be A Hero To Understand A Hero. The Valet, I Dare Say, Has Great Respect For Some Person Of His Own Stamp.

You Shall Abstain, Shall Abstain. That Is The Eternal Song.

To Live As One Likes Is Plebian The Noble Man Aspires To Order And Law.

The Bad Thing Is That Thinking About Thought Doesn't Help At All; One Has To Have It From Nature So That The Good Ideas Appear Before Us Like Free Children Of God Calling To Us: Here We Are.

In All Things, To Serve From The Lowest Station Upwards Is Necessary. To Restrict Yourself To A Trade Is Best. For The Narrow Mind, Whatever He Attempts Is Still A Trade; For The Higher, An Art; And The Highest In Doing One Thing Does All, Or, To Speak Less Paradoxically, In The One Thing Which He Does Rightly He Sees The Likeness Of All That Is Done Rightly.

True Works Of Art Contain Their Own Theory And Give Us The Measurement According To Which We Should Judge Them.

If Man Thinks About His Physical Or Moral State He Usually Discovers That He Is Ill.

Say What We May Of The Inadequacy Of Translation, Yet The Work Is And Will Always Be One Of The Weightiest And Worthiest Undertakings In The General Concerns Of The World.

It Is The Nature Of Grace Always To Fill Spaces That Have Been Empty.

The Flowers Of Life Are But Visionary. How Many Pass Away And Leave No Trace Behind! How Few Yield Any Fruit,--and The Fruit Itself, How Rarely Does It Ripen! And Yet There Are Flowers Enough; And Is It Not Strange, My Friend, That We Should Suffer The Little That Does Really Ripen To Rot, Decay, And Perish Unenjoyed?

If You Want Someone To Develop A Specific Trait, Treat Them As Though They Already Had It.

Zweck Sein Selbst Ist Jegliches Tier. Each Animal Is An End In Itself.

A Flippant, Frivolous Man May Ridicule Others, May Controvert Them, Scorn Them; But He Who Has Any Respect For Himself Seems To Have Renounced The Right Of Thinking Meanly Of Others.

Character Develops Itself In The Stream Of Life.

Go To Foreign Countries And You Will Get To Know The Good Things One Possesses At Home.

Don't Judge Anyone Harshly Until You Yourself Have Been Through His Experiences

There Is But One Poetry,--true Poetry.

Every Individual Who Is Not Creative Has A Negative, Narrow, Exclusive Taste And Succeeds In Depriving Creative Being Of Its Energy And Life.

The Hardest Thing To See Is What Is In Front Of Your Eyes.

If You Are Convinced Of A Matter, You Must Take Sides Or You Don't Deserve To Succeed.

Over All The Mountain Tops Is Peace.

As A Man Is, So Is His God; Therefore God Was So Often An Object Of Mockery. [ger., Wie Einer Ist, So Ist Sein Gott, Darum Ward Gott So Oft Zu Spott.]

Pain And Pleasure, Good And Evil, Come To Us From Unexpected Sources. It Is Not There Where We Have Gathered Up Our Brightest Hopes, That The Dawn Of Happiness Breaks. It Is Not There Where We Have Glanced Our Eye With Affright, That We Find The Deadliest Gloom. What Should This Teach Us? To Bow To The Great And Only Source Of Light, And Live Humbly And With Confiding Resignation.

A Man Avails Himself Of The Truth So Long As It Is Serviceable; But He Seizes On What Is False With A Passionate Eloquence As Soon As He Can Make A Momentary Use Of It.

Distrust Those In Whom The Desire To Punish Is Strong.

The World Sees Only The Reflection Of Merit; Therefore When You Come To Know A Really Great Man Intimately, You May As Often Find Him Above As Below His Reputation.

Only Learn To Seize Good Fortune, For Good Fortune's Always Here.

Too Rigid Scruples Are Concealed Pride.

It Matters Little Whether A Man Be Mathematically Or Philologically Or Artistically Cultivated, So He Be But Cultivated.

We Do Not Have To Visit A Madhouse To Find Disordered Minds; Our Planet Is The Mental Institution Of The Universe.

No One Knows What He Is Doing So Long As He Is Acting Rightly; But Of What Is Wrong One Is Always Conscious.

A Plant Is Like A Self-willed Man, Out Of Whom We Can Obtain All Which We Desire, If We Will Only Treat Him His Own Way.

Beware Of Dissipating Your Powers; Strive Constantly To Concentrate Them.

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