Popular Quotes from Great Minds

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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Few people have the imagination for reality.

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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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Doubt grows with knowledge.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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I love those who yearn for the impossible.

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Love can do much, but duty more.

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.