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81 No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
82 Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
83 Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
84 It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
85 Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
86 Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
87 A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
88 Doubt grows with knowledge.
89 Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
90 He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
91 To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
92 To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
93 Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
94 Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
95 To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
96 We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
97 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
98 This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
99 The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
100 Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
101 A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
102 Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
103 Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
104 Nothing is worth more than this day.
105 Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
106 The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
107 Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
108 Woods burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has proper stuff in him.
109 The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
110 The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
111 The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
112 Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
113 The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
114 Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
115 One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
116 Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
117 Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
118 Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
119 Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
120 No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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