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There is nothing with which

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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Life can only be understood

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
👁️ 83

If I were to wish

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility
👁️ 63

Prayer does not change God,

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
👁️ 80

It seems essential, in relationships

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
👁️ 96

Life is not a problem

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
👁️ 56

Adversity draws men together and

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
👁️ 56

Take away paradox from the

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
👁️ 160

Most men pursue pleasure with

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
👁️ 61

Far from idleness being the

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
👁️ 60

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