Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
The higher we rise, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
One never goes so far as when one no longer knows where one is going.
What beauty is, I know not.
We're all mad here.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He who walks straight rarely falls.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
I know that I know nothing.
To high places by narrow roads.
To the stars through difficulty.
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Music before all else.
Life well spent is long.
I think, therefore I am.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Those who live without madness are not as wise as they think.
The long sobs Of the violins Of autumn Hurt my heart With a monotonous Languor
... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth - Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, - O, give me back my youth again!
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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