Johann Gottfried Seume Quotes

• All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Character, Times Like These, Doe

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• Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Stupid, Mind, Body

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• Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Hype, Deception, Earth

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• Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Women, Leader, Sorrow

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• People should always have something which they prefer to life.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Life, People, Preference

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• Music is the key to the female heart.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Music, Wisdom, Heart

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• Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Men, Gambling, Tears

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• Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Inspirational, Men, Void

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