"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."
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"Live with your century; but do not be its creature."
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"Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain."
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"Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next."
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"The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor."
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"Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion."
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"Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are."
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"It is play and only play that makes man complete."
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"Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful."
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"As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment."
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"What shall he fear that does not fear death."
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"Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life."
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"Stubbornness is not firmness."
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"I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets."
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"Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound."
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"Satisfy a few to please many is bad."
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"There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time."
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"He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth."
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"The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter."
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"Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains."
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