"If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you."
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"Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone."
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"One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it."
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"Only the soul that loves is happy"
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
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"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."
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"All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency."
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"It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law."
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"You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude."
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"[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble."
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"The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist."
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"Man errs, till he has ceased to strive."
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"It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant."
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"A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines."
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"Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire."
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"To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won."
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"Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe."
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"It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed."
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"Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant."
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"We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind."
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