Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
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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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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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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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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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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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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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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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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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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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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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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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