"Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them."
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"The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them."
"Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal."
"All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them."
"Everything is ideal to its parent."
"Violence is the fear to other's ideals."
"The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole."
"If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have."
"My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud."
"The ideal love affair should be conducted by post."
"He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it."
"Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks."