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" Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. "

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" To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. "

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" There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son. "

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" The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. "

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" Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. "

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" This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. "

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" If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. "

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" When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. "

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" Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. "

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" To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. "

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" Prose talks and poetry sings. "

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" If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept. "

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" Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. "

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" Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. "

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" Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. "

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" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "

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" You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. "

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" Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. "

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