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Wisdom is found only in truth.

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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they ...more

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No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehensio...more

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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

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Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it ...more

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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

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I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

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What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?