"You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues."
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"Originality provokes originality."
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"We don't get to know anything but what we love."
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"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."
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"What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance."
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"The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes."
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"Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain."
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"We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them."
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"There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing."
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"Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!"
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"My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure."
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"Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!"
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"Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production."
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"We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions."
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"Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age."
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"We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all."
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"You are, when all is done-just what you are."
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"Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith."
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"Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!"
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"The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks"
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