“We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it”
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“We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it”
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love”
“The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little”
“Experience is not enough in itself - it has to be weighed, ordered and digested, and we have to draw the right conclusions from it”
“A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can”
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened”
“Children's games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity”
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. ”
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband”
“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance”
“I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. ”
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly”
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ”
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out”