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- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt: German statesman
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: German mathematician, philosopher, physicist and diplomat
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
― Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
German mathematician, philosopher, physicist and diplomat (1646 - 1716) -
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
― Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
German mathematician, philosopher, physicist and diplomat (1646 - 1716) -
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
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