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• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

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  Flower, Heart, Humble

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• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

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  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

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  Stupid, Bipolar, Insane

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• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

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  Good Life, Gossip, Envy

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• I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

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  Women, Character, New Day

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

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  Miracle, Matter, Spirit

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• No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

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  Marriage, Sea, Compass

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• The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

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  Archer, Arrows, Lips

  "Religion and Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Heine, 1852.

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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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  Evil, Tolerance, Religion

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• You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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  Science, Diversity, Political

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• The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

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  Heart, Men, Years

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• Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

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  Historical, Rothschild, Prophet

  Heinrich Heine, Paul Lawrence Rose (1982). “History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany”

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• Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

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  Fear, Atheism, Ass

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• The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

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  People, Envy, Elements

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• I live, which is the main point.

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  Heinrich Heine (1887). “The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine”, Library of Alexandria

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• True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

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  Silence, Literature, Eloquence

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Maxims and Moral Sentences, No. 262), 1922.

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• Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

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  Book, People, Burning

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• It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

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  Believe, Atheism, Literature

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• If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

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  Funny, Life, Education

  As quoted in "The Medical Record", No. 674, October 6, 1883.

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• Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

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  Inspiration, Silence, Conversation

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• Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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  Heart, People, Revolution

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• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

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  Inspirational Love, Inspirational Life, Flower

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

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  Faith, Men, Literature

  "The Sword and the Flame".

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• I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

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  Sadness, Mind, Fairy Tale

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• It is an ancient story
  Yet is it ever new.

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  Life, New Life, Stories

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