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"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
Contentment

"To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind."
Teamwork

"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
Philosophy

"When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one."
Emotion

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
Art

"For in music there is no material to be deducted."
Art

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."
Heart

"And while throughout the self-same motion, Repeated on forever flows, The thousandfold overarching ocean, Its strong embrace around all throws, Streams through all things the joy of living, The least star thrills fond accord, And all their crowding, all their striving, Is endless rest in God the Lord."
Faith

"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
Truth

"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."
Culture
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