"It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain."
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"Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will."
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"Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them."
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"The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear."
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"Honesty prospers in every condition of life."
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"To save all we must risk all."
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"If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly."
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"In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs."
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"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain."
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"Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives."
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"Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead."
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"Wise to resolve, patient to perform."
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"We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?"
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"On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment."
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"To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven."
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"No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom."
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"It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom."
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"While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe."
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"The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life."
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"O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love."
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