Life is too short to drink bad wine.
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
There is no patriotic art.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Precaution is better than cure.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe
I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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