There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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