"What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old."
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"In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably."
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"I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner."
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"The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are."
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"The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question."
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"He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them."
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"A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him."
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"The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold."
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"Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before."
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"Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer."
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"How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like."
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"Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely."
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"Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see."
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"The present moment is a powerful goddess."
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"One mind is enough for a thousand hands."
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"I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher."
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"I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!"
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"My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life."
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"If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art."
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"Our virtues and view spring from one root."
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