Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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The world remains ever the same.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression. With yellow the eye rejoices, the heart expands, the spirit is cheered and we immediately feel warmed. Many people feel an inclination to laugh when looking through a yellow glass.
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Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they mu...
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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
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