What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

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