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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Pure truth is for God alone.

Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!