Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
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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 of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Who is the happiest of men He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
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