Ludwig Borne Quotes

• Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

  Ludwig Borne

  Life, Truth, Sunset

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• The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

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  Advice, Secret, Cowardly

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• Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

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  Delusion, Wiser

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• To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.

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  Heart, Men, Voice

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• Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

  Ludwig Borne

  Inspirational, Censorship, First Amendment

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• You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

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  Love, Lovely, Found

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• Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

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  Liberty, Slave, Born

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• Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

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  Sarcastic, Fall, Sarcasm

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• The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

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  Fear, Dangerous, Fearful

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• If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

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  Hate, Giving, Hatred

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• Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.

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  Women, Adorable, Most Adorable

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• Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

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  Country, Government, Wind

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• History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

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  Funny, Sarcasm, Vices

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• Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.

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  Change, Lasting, Perpetual

  "Denkrede auf Jean Paul Friedr. Richter". Book by Ludwig Borne, 1826.

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• The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

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  Differences, Liberty

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• Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

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  Doe, Would Be, Rust

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• Nought endures but change.

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  Change, Endure

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