Quotes by Johann Gottfried Seume

Johann Gottfried Seume

German writer

Lived from: 1763 - 1810

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: Germany

Born: 29 january 1763 Died: 13 june 1810

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• Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

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• Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

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• Music is the key to the female heart.

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• People should always have something which they prefer to life.

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• Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• circumstances
• something
• deceive
• outward
• people
• should

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