"if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful."
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"How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?"
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"There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation."
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"Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you."
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"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."
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"If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite."
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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."
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"It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it."
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"Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it."
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"It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are."
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"Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism."
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"Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves."
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"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."
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"A distracted existence leads us to no goal"
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"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
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"You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own."
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"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity."
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"People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up."
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"Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."
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"The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work."
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