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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
[Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie
abgeglattet sind.]
Topic: Ability
Source: Titan (zykel 26)
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Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it
had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent
knees.
Topic: Anger
Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. VI)
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
Topic: Character
Source: None
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Topic: Courtesy
Source: None
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Topic: Danger
Source: None
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Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be
interrupted.
Topic: Enjoyment
Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. VIII)
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It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
[Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, zu
schmeicheln als zu loben.]
Topic: Flattery
Source: Titan (zykel 34)
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It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: None
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs,
is silent.
[Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die grosste Tugend und die
schlimmsten Hunde, still.]
Topic: Hatred
Source: Hesperus (XII)
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Topic: Memory
Source: None
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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then
is he really so.
[Ger., Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern
beim Tadel, dann ist er's.]
Topic: Modesty
Source: Hesperus (12)
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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Topic: Mystery
Source: None
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: None
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Topic: Paradise
Source: None
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He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no
longer in his power.
[Ger., Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat
den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt.]
Topic: Secrecy
Source: Titan (zykel 123)
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A sky full of silent suns.
Topic: Sky
Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. II)
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A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Topic: Timidity
Source: None
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How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world.
Topic: Trust
Source: None
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Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and
down beneath it.
Topic: Twilight
Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. II)
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For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als
Einerleiheit des Etwas.]
Topic: Variety
Source: Levana--Fragment V (I, 100)
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Topic: Variety
Source: None
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Topic: Variety
Source: None
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