There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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