"All is born of water; all is sustained by water."
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"Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct."
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"Superstition is part of the poetry of life."
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"One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides."
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"Great passions are incurable diseases."
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"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
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"What then is your duty? What the day demands."
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"Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love."
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"Where there are no women there are no good manners"
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"To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit."
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"People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end."
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"When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash."
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"The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh."
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"When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken."
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"All our knowledge is symbolic."
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"Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes."
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"Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent."
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"That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over."
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"It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself."
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"I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them."
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