"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
"Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire."
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Source: Friedrich Schiller, Charles Herbert Cottrell (1844). “Don Carlos ... Translated ... by C. H. Cottrell”, p.32
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