"There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it."
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"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it."
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"Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization."
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"It is delivery that makes the orators success."
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"Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done."
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"Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few."
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"We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to."
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"There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows."
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"The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence."
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"One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment."
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"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."
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"Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew."
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"The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world."
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"Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion"
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"It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles."
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"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."
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"The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors."
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"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
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"Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?"
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"People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were."
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