It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
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Master and Doctor are my titles for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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What makes people happy is activity changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
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