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" Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Virtues
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" Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. "
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" The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. "
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" I call architecture frozen music. "
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" Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. "
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" The little man is still a man. "
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" When ideas fail, words come in very handy. "
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" First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. "
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" In art the best is good enough. "
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" Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. "
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" Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. "
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" What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. "
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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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" If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. "
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" The world remains ever the same. "
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" Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. "
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" Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. "
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" This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. "
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" We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright. "
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" A person hears only what they understand. "
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" He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. "
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" All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. "
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" He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. "
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" Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. "
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" The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. "
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" Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. "
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" Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. "
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