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
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.
Cheerfulness is created for men through moderation of enjoyment and harmoniousness of life. Things that are in excess or lacking are apt to change and cause great disturbance in the soul.
Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.
Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
All that glisters is not gold.
Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.
Form is the substance which rises to the surface.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
It is better to deliberate before action than to repent afterwards.
No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning.
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