Quotes 181 till 200 of 327.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
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