War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Nature never breaks her own laws.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.
He who thinks little, errs much.
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Another's wrong act you must leave where it is.
Silence is the great revelation.
He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.
Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.
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