To love is to act.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
The rest is silence.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do – you have to keep moving forward.
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
There my life began when I loved you.
And days together stand I on the shore, Seeking, in my soul, the land of Greece.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Where there is matter, there is geometry.
Ethics is in truth the easiest of all sciences.
He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.
Art is the transition from nature to education, and from education to nature.
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.
Be victorious, but do not triumph.
They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.
While love may overcome death, it happens that a small, mean habit can overcome love.
The spirit of a language reveals itself most clearly in its untranslatable words.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
The right of the strongest is the strongest wrong.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
By the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation.
Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence.
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He who does not know any foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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