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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

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If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Cons...

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

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I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its co...

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What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

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She sought her happiness exclusively in the happiness of others. Death gave her her own.

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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

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Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

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Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man rem...

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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discards it with indi...

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Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.

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Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

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It is good insofar as it is not evil.

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Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you b...

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The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man....

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"What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments...

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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

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