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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Imagination is the mightiest despot.
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
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Years teach us more than books.
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When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
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Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?