An unused life is an early death.
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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Everything transitory is but an image.
If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself; it is a child of solitude.
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.