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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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Duration in change.
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In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.