Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
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.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Architecture in general is frozen music.
To love beauty is to see light.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
They succeed, because they think they can.
By the work one knows the workman.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
From one, learn all.
Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times.
Conformity of the intellect to the things.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Don't despair.
He who can endure all can dare all.
The wise man is rich
Love conquers all
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