The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
To have more, you must first be more.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
It is opposition that makes us productive.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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