Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)
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The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit
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The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
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I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
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Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
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The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
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We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
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Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)
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When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
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God will pardon me. It is his trade.
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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)
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