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가장 유능한 사람은 가장 배움에 힘쓰는 사람이다.
오해는 뜨개질하는 양말의 한 코를 빠뜨린 것과 같아서, 시초에 고치면 단지 한 바늘로 해결된다.
마음에는 예의란 것이 있다. 그것은 애정과 같은 것이어서 그같이 순수한 예의는 밖으로 흘러나와 외면 행동으로 나타나는 것이다.
이해할 수 없는 것은 손 안에 넣을 수 없다.
그래, 어떻든 간에 인생은 좋은 것이다.
괴로움이 남기고 간 것을 맛보아라. 고통도 지나고 나면 달콤한 것이다.
고난이 있을 때마다 그것이 참된 인간이 되어가는 과정임을 기억해야 한다.
선을 행하는 데는 나중이라는 말이 필요없다.
생활은 전부 다음 둘로서 성립되고 있다. 하고 싶지만 할 수 없다, 할 수 있 지만 하고 싶지 않다.
새로운 진리가 낡은 오류보다도 위험하다는 법은 없다.
당신은 항상 영웅이 될 수 없다. 그러나 항상 사람은 될 수 있다.
눈물을 흘리면서 빵을 먹어보지 못한 사람은 인생의 참맛을 알 수 없다.
꿈을 품고 무언가 할 수 있다면 그것을 시작하라. 새로운 일을 시작하는 용기 속에 당신의 천재성과 능력과 기적이 모두 숨어 있다.
행실은 각자가 자기의 이미지를 보여주는 거울이다.
한 건축물에서 보아야 할 세가지가 있다. 그것은 적절한 자리에 서 있는가, 안전하게 기초가 되어 있는가, 잘 지어져 있는가이다.
자연의 극치는 사랑이다. 사랑에 의해서만 사람은 자연에 접근할 수 있다.
자연은 책략가다. 그러나 그 목적하고 있는 것은 선이다. 그 책략하는 것은 걱정하지 않는 것이 좋다.
왕이건 농부이건 자신의 가정에 평화를 찾아낼 수 있는 자가 가장 행복한 인간이다.
인간은 사회에서 여러 가지를 배울 수 있다. 그러나 영감을 받는 것은 오직 고독에 있어서만 가능하다.
이십대의 사랑은 환상이다. 30대의 사랑은 외도이다. 사람은 40세에 와서야 처음으로 참된 사랑을 알게 된다.
이 대지에서는 나의 기쁨이 샘솟고 있다. 태양은 나의 모든 고통을 씻을 듯 이 그 자비로운 빛과 함께 따스하게 감싸준다.
유능한 사람은 언제나 배우는 사람인 것이다.
몸가짐은 각자의 자기의 모습을 비치는 거울이다,
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훌륭한 재주는 쓰는데서 행복을 찾는다.
현명함은 오직 진실 안에서만 찾을 수 있다.
행동에 있어 무식함을 보는 것보다 끔찍한 것은 없다.
한 날보다 더 값지게 평가되는 것은 없다.
친구여, 이론은 온통 회색빛이다. 그러나 인생의 황금나무는 초록빛이다.
친구들을 속이는 것보다 속임 당하는게 낫다.
지배하는 것은 쉽지만 다스리는 것은 어렵다.
작은 사람도 사람이다.
자연스럽지 않은 것은, 너무 자연스러운 것이다.
자신을 믿으라, 그럼 인생을 어떻게 살아야 할 지 알 수 있을것이다.
자신을 믿는순간 어떻게 인생을 살아야 하는지 알 것이다.
일반상식이야말로 인류의 천재성이다.
인생은 우리의 불멸성의 유아기일 뿐이다.
인생에서 중요한 것은 인생 그 자체이다, 인생의 결과가 아니라.
인간의 정신은 그 어떤 한계에도 제한되지 않을 것이다.
이미 알려진 목적은 더이상 당신의 것이 아니다.
이 날보다 더 가치있는 것은 없다.
위험하게 사는 것이 옳게 사는 것이다.
우리는 항상 많은 시간을 가지고 있다, 우리가 제대로 사용하기만 한다면.
우리가 그 다리에 다다른다면 다리를 불태워버릴것이다.
옳은 답은 사랑이 가득한 키스와 같다.
오늘 시작되지 않은 일은 절대 내일 끝날수 없다.
예방이 치료보다 낫다.
영악한 사람은 작은 실수를 저지르지 않는다.
어떤 사람이 무엇에 흥미를 느끼는가를 보면 그의 성격을 쉽게 알 수 있다.
아직 아무도 자아를 완전히 알 수 있는 방법을 찾아내지 못했다.
아름다움은 모든곳에서 환영받는 손님이다.
쓸모없는 삶이란 일찍 죽은 거나 다름없다.
소수의 사람만이 현실성을 상상한다.
사용되지 않은 인생은 이른 죽음과도 같다.
사랑은 기부하는 것이 아니다; 경작하는 것이지.
사랑도 많은 것을 할 수 있지만 의무는 더 많은 것을 할 수 있다.
사랑과 욕망은 훌륭한 행위를 위한 영환의 날개들이다.
사람은 하는일에 신념을 가져야만 한다. 그리고 누구나 자기의 하는일이 옳다고 굳게 믿는다면 실행에 옮겨야 한다. 자기에게 그러한 힘이 있을까 하고 주저하거나 망설이지 말고 앞으로 앞으로 나아가라.
사람은 오직 자신이 이해한 것만 듣는다.
미신은 인생에 관한 시이다.
미스터리가 꼭 기적인 것은 아니다.
문학의 쇠퇴는 국가의 쇠퇴를 나타낸다.
무지한 사람은 현명한 사람이 천년 전에 대답했던 질문을 한다.
무엇이든 당신이 이해하지 못하는 것은 소유할 수 없다.
무언가를 창조하기 위해서 당신은 무언가가 될 필요가 있다.
모든 것은 일시적일 뿐이다.
모두들 자신이 이해하는 것만 듣는다.
모두들 누군가가 되고싶어 한다. 아무도 성장하고 싶어하지 않는다.
맛보기 없는 상상보다 무서운건 없다.
만약 제 시간에 내가 말한다면: ‘이제 멈춰! 당신은 정말 아름다워!
만약 자신의 육체적, 정신적 상태에 대해 생각하기 시작한다면 당신은 보통 당신이 아프다는 것을 발견할 것이다.
만약 내가 당신을 사랑한다면, 그게 당신에게 무슨 상관인가!
만약 그 사람의 마음을 알고 싶다면, 그의 말을 들어보라.
당신이 할수 있는 모든것, 혹은 꿈꿀수 있는 모든것, 시작하라. 대담함은 천재성과, 힘, 그리고 마법을 가지고 있다.
다른사람에게 내가 더 이상 필요치 않는다면 내 삶은 무엇인가?
다른 삶을 희망하지 않는 사람은 이 삶에서도 죽은 것이다.
다른 사람을 전혀 신뢰하지 않는 그는 이 세계에선 죽은 셈이다.
누구든 비밀을 지키고 싶다면 자신이 비밀을 소유하고 있다는 사실조차도 숨겨야만 한다.
너 자신을 알라고? 만약 내 자신을 알았다면 나는 도망쳤을 것이다.
내뱉는 모든 말들은 우리의 아집을 환기시켜준다.
내가 가지고 있는 모든 지식은 조금만 노력하면 누구나 습득할 수 있지만, 나의 마음만은 오직 내 자신의 것이다.
나무는 그 속의 적절한 특징이 있기 때문에 탄다; 그리고 인간은 그 안의 적절한 특징이 있기 때문에 유명해진다.
나를 개선시키려는 사람들보다 내가 낫다고 생각한다.
나는 책 읽는 방법을 배우기 위해 80년이라는 세월을 바쳤지만, 아직까지도 잘 배웠다고 말할 수 없다.
나는 건축을 얼은 음악이라 부른다.
나 자신을 모른다, 신이 내가 그러하는 것을 금지하셨다.
그는 가장 행복하다, 그가 왕이거나 농부이거나, 집에서는 평화를 누릴 수 있는 사람말이다.
그냥 자신을 믿으라, 그럼 어떻게 살아야 하는 지 알 수 있을 것이다.
그가 하는 일을 즐기고 해낸 것들을 즐겨하는 사람이 행복한 사람이다.
교정이 많은 것을 하지만, 격려가 그보다 더 도움이 된다.
겁쟁이는 그가 안전할때에만 위협한다.
Open the second shutter so that more light may come in.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
They travel with a constant companion, autumn.
There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
The world remains ever the same.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don’t understand; no wonder they come to grief.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.
The deed is everything, the glory naught.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Strike the dog dead, it’s but a critic!
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
On all the peaks lies peace.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Mastery passes often for egotism.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
In art the best is good enough.
If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
If any wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundati
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to.
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are wor
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
사람을 낚아 올리는 악마는 여러가지 맛있는 미끼를 보인다.
눈물과 함께 빵을 먹어보지 않은 사람은 인생의 참다운 맛을 못본다.
나는 인간이었다. 그것은 싸우는 者 자 란 것을 의미한다.
나는 아무래도 이 세상에서 한 사람의 여행하는 사람, 한 개의 편로 遍路 에 지나지 않는 것 같다. 당신들인들 그 이상이겠는가.
오랫동안 사색하고 있는 사람이 언제나 최선의것을 선택한다고는 할 수 없는 것이다.
이해하고 있지 않은 것은 소유하고 있는 것이 아니다.