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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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Every step of life shows much caution is required.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

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The little man is still a man.

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