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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

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Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

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Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

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Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you’d live unconquered,Qui...more

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever lo...more

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In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

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Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

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We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.

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I love those who yearn for the impossible.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

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15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.