A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
It is opposition that makes us productive.
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
To have more, you must first be more.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
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