Johann Gottfried Seume quotes
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“Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.”
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“People should always have something which they prefer to life.”
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“Music is the key to the female heart.”
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“Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.”
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“Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.”
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“Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.”
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“All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.”
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“Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.”
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