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A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Appearance rules the world.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we've found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time.

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.