“Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 16
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“The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool.”
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
“No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.”
“One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.”
“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
“The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly.”
“You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.”
“The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.”
“Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.”
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.”
“I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse.”
“None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.”
“Each of us inevitable; each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.”
“Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?”
“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
“What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?”
“Praised be the fathomless universe for life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious.”
“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
“The paths to the house I seek to make, but leave to those to come the house itself.”
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