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All Quotes by author - Wilhelm von Humboldt
" Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. "
Lead
Freedom
Actions
" How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. "
Important
Person
More
" However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. "
Wisdom
Path
Men
" I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. "
Happiness
I Am
Way
" If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. "
Human
See
Mind
" It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is. "
Man
Important
Fate
" Language makes infinite use of finite media. "
Use
Infinite
Language
" Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us. "
Our
Take
Us
" The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. "
Best
Makes
Unnecessary
" True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. "
Body
Fitness
Mind
" War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. "
See
Regret
Nature
" Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. "
Husband
Family
Citizen
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