Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.
The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Whoever you are, here is your master: He is, was or will be.
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.
Ingratitude is the mother of all vice.
We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.
One swallow does not make a summer.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
Chance gives thoughts, and chance takes them away.
Philosophize is to learn how to die.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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