We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
To make something you have to be something.
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
It is opposition that makes us productive.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
By seeking and blundering we learn.
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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