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• Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

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  Distance, Flower, Past

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• The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

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  Future, Past, Cradle

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• I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

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  Wife, Infidelity, Honor

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• The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

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  Dangerous Situations, Apathy, Temper

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• People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

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  Inspirational, Music, People

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• The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

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  Flower, Simplicity, Crowns

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• Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

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  Profound, Simplicity, Achievement

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• Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

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  Real, Self, Practice

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• Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

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  Hands, Mind, Slavery

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• Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

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  Travel, Home, Knowledge

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• The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

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  Military, Causes, Empty

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• Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

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  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

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  Courage, Decision, World

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• What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

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  Money, Today, Credit

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• Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Integrity, Matter

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• Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

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  Hands, Greek, Islam

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• The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

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  Dream, Shadow, World

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• The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

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  Inspirational Education, Individual, Educated

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• Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

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  Money, Business, Delight

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• Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

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  Education, Hands, Issues

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• Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

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  Hate, Thinking, Principles

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• Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

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  Truth, Past, Yesterday

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• I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

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  Life, Time, Moving

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• What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

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  Success, Hope, Sleep

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• Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

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  Mind, Piety, Fermentation

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