"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
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"Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!"
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"There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time."
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"Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though."
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"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."
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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
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"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."
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"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
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"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be."
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"Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish."
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"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."
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"He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something."
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
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"One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows."
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"If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken."
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"I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial."
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"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
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"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."
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"Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."
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