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Man... Knows Only When He Is Satisfied And When He Suffers, And Only His Sufferings And His Satisfactions Instruct Him Concerning Himself, Teach Him What To Seek And What To Avoid. For The Rest, Man Is A Confused Creature; He Knows Not Whence He Comes Or Whither He Goes, He Knows Little Of The World, And Above All, He Knows Little Of Himself.

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Man... Knows Only When He Is Satisfied And When He Suffers, And Only His Sufferings And His Satisfactions Instruct Him Concerning Himself, Teach Him What To Seek And What To Avoid. For The Rest, Man Is A Confused Creature; He Knows Not Whence He Comes Or Whither He Goes, He Knows Little Of The World, And Above All, He Knows Little Of Himself.

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He Who Cannot Draw On Three Thousand Years Is Living From Hand To Mouth.

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Oral Delivery Aims At Persuasion And Making The Listener Believe They Are Converted. Few Persons Are Capable Of Being Convinced The Majority Allow Themselves To Be Persuaded.

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He Is Happiest, Be He King Or Peasant, Who Finds Peace In His Home.

Girls We Love For What They Are; Young Men For What They Promise To Be.

Courage And Modesty Are The Most Unequivocal Of Virtues, For They Are Of A Kind That Hypocrisy Cannot Imitate; They Too Have This Quality In Common, That They Are Expressed By The Same Color.

I Have So Much In Me, And The Feeling For Her Absorbs It All; I Have So Much, And Without Her It All Comes To Nothing.

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On Every Mountain Height Is Rest.

Death Is Nature's Expert Advice To Get Plenty Of Life.

Alas! Sorrow From Happiness Is Oft Evolved.

The Deed Is Everything, The Glory Is Naught.

When You Lose Interest In Anything, You Also Lose The Memory For It.

None Are So Hopelessly Enslaved, As Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free. The Truth Has Been Kept From The Depth Of Their Minds By Masters Who Rule Them With Lies. They Feed Them On Falsehoods Till Wrong Looks Like Right In Their Eyes.

We Blame Equally Him Who Is Too Proud To Put A Proper Value On His Own Merit And Him Who Prizes Too Highly His Spurious Worth.

Sing It Not In Mournful Numbers.

Waste Not A Day In Vain Digression; With Resolute, Courageous Trust Seek Every Possible Impression And Make It Firmly Your Posession You'll Then Work On Because You Must.

There Is No Past We Can Bring Back By Longing For It. There Is Only An Eternal Now That Builds And Creates Out Of The Past Something New And Better.

Men Show Their Character In Nothing More Clearly Than What They Think Laughable.

There Speaks The Man Of Truly Noble Ways, Who Will Not Listen To The Words Of Praise. In Modesty Averse, And With Deaf Ears, He Acts As Though The Others Were His Peers.

Where I Cannot Be Moral, My Power Is Gone.

In The End We Are All Separate: Our Stories, No Matter How Similar, Come To A Fork And Diverge. We Are Drawn To Each Other Because Of Our Similarities, But It Is Our Differences We Must Learn To Respect.

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Analysis And Synthesis Are Both As Necessary To The Thinking Spirit As Inspiration And Expiration To The Organism.

As Soon As You Trust Yourself, You Will Know How To Live.

What One Has Wished For In Youth, In Old Age One Has In Abundance.

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

Neither Art Thou The Man To Catch The Fiend And Hold Him! [ger., Du Bist Noch Nicht Der Mann Den Teufel Festzuhalten.

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I Call Architecture Frozen Music.

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Blood Is A Juice Of Rarest Quality. [ger., Blut Ist Ein Ganz Beondrer Saft.]

Music Is Liquid Architecture; Architecture Is Frozen Music.

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We Can't Form Our Children On Our Own Concepts; We Must Take Them And Love Them As God Gives Them To Us.

You Can Easily Judge The Character Of A Man By How He Treats Those Who Can Do Nothing For Him.

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

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A Joy Shared Is A Joy Doubled.

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The New Vulcanism Is Really A Daring Attempt To Connect The Present, Incomprehensible World To A Past, Unknown One.

If You Lay Duties Upon People And Give Them No Rights, You Must Pay Them Well.

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Architecture Is Frozen Music. [ger., Die Backunst Ist Eine Erstarrte Musik.]

Every Spoken Word Arouses Our Self-will.

The Mind Is Found Most Acute And Most Uneasy In The Morning. Uneasiness Is, Indeed, A Species Of Sagacity - A Passive Sagacity. Fools Are Never Uneasy.

Truth Is Contrary To Our Nature, Not So Error, And This For A Very Simple Reason: Truth Demands That We Should Recognize Ourselves As Limited, Error Flatters Us That, In One Way Or Another, We Are Unlimited.

As Soon As You Are In A Social Setting, You Better Take Away The Key To The Lock Of Your Heart And Pocket It; Those Who Leave Thekey In The Lock Are Fools.

Not The Maker Of Plans And Promises, But Rather The One Who Offers Faithful Service In Small Matters. This Is The Person Who Is Most Likely To Achieve What Is Good And Lasting.

A Life Without Love, Without The Presence Of The Beloved, Is Nothing But A Mere Magic-lantern Show. We Draw Out Slide After Slide, Swiftly Tiring Of Each, And Pushing It Back To Make Haste For The Next.

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

He Who Serves The Public Is A Poor Animal; He Worries Himself To Death And No One Thanks Him For It.

Age Childish Makes, They Say, But 'tis Not True; We're Only Genuine Children Still In Age's Season. [ger., Das Alter Macht Nicht Kindisch, Wie Man Spricht, Es Findet Uns Nur Noch Als Wahre Kinder.]

One Criticizes The English For Carrying Their Teapots Wherever They Go, Even Lugging Them Up Mount Etna. But Doesn't Every Nationhave Its Teapot, In Which, Even When Traveling, It Brews The Dried Bundles Of Herbs Brought From Home?

Don't Feel Guilty If You Don't Immediately Love Your Stepchildren As You Do Your Own, Or As Much As You Think You Should. Everyoneneeds Time To Adjust To The New Family, Adults Included. There Is No Such Thing As An "instant Parent." Actually, No Concrete Object Lies Outside Of The Poetic Sphere As Long As The Poet Knows How To Use The Object Properly.

Try Novelties For Salesman's Bait, For Novelty Wins Everyone.

No One Has Ever Learned Fully To Know Themselves.

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Situations In Life

Whoever, In Middle Age, Attempts To Realize The Wishes And Hopes Of His Early Youth, Invariably Deceives Himself. Each Ten Years Of A Man's Life Has Its Own Fortunes, Its Own Hopes, Its Own Desires.

He Is The Happiest Man Who Can See The Connection Between The End And The Beginning Of Life.

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

The Most Happy Man Is He Who Knows How To Bring Into Relation The End And Beginning Of His Life.

Who Longs In Solitude To Live, Ah! Soon His Wish Will Gain: Men Hope And Love, Men Get And Give, And Leave Him To His Pain.

What Sort Of God Would It Be, Who Only Pushed From Without.

Many Hammer All Over The Wall And Believe That With Each Blow They Hit The Nail On The Head.

Men Are Joined By Conviction, Sundered By Opinion.

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