| Quotes |
Topic |
| Footsteps | The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. |
| Forgiveness | It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. |
| Future | Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. |
| Future | A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. |
| Gifts | Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. |
| Glory | Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. |
| Gold | Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. |
| Greatness | That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. |
| Grief | What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? |
| Guests | Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. |
| Hair | For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? |
| Help | You will swim without cork . |
| Heroes | Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. |
| Humility | Humble things become the humble. |
| Idleness | Busy idleness urges us on. |
| Idleness | That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. |
| Imagination | He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. |
| Imagination | Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. |
| Imagination | He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. |
| Imitation | I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. |
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