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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
