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• I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

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  Government, People, Wish

  "On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment". "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1836.

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• Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

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  Plato, Loneliness, Complacency

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• Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

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  Views, Insanity, Insane

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• Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

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  Learning, Self, Growing

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• You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

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  Differences, Judging, Doe

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• The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

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  Doe, Goodness, Good Things

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• I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

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  Respect, Self Respect, I Respect Myself

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• It is good insofar as it is not evil.

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  Evil

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• Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.

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  Average, Two, Mind

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• The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

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  Teacher, Poetry, Way

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• Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

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  Distance, Flower, Past

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• The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

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  Men, Appreciate, Different

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• A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

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  Love, Passion, Men

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• Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

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  Courage, Fear, Needs

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• I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

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  Writing, Imagination, Tragedy

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• The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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  Art, Believe, Skills

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• Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

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  Thinking, Gold, May

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• The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

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  Respect, Squares, Justice

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• No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

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  Matter, Ridiculous, Ends

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• Servants honor their master by their service.

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  Honor, Masters, Servant

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• Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

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  Strength, Military, Army

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• Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

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  Horse, Brave, Soldier

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• Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

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  Change, Gratitude, Fickle

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• If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

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  Thinking, Animal, Intelligence

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