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What we do not understand we do not possess.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!

Power is neither male nor female.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!

Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.

What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave, To whom his mistress dying, A golden goblet gave.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.