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| Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful | | Peace | |
| Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Sorrow is brief but joy is endless | | Joy; Sorrow | |
| That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. | | Uncategorized | |
| The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. | | Uncategorized | |
| The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. | | Happiness; Life | |
| The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. | | Uncategorized | |
| The history of the world is the world's court of justice. | | Uncategorized | |
| The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds | | Uncategorized | |
| The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh | | Uncategorized | |
| The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. | | Uncategorized | |
| The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet | | Uncategorized | |
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| The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. | | Uncategorized | |
| The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies | | Friendship; Hate | |
| There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. | | Chance | |
| They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. | | Wisdom | |
