To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".
People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing
We really did. We got married.
To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.
Poor is the man who desires a lot
To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
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