Ludwig Borne quotes
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“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
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“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
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“The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.”
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“Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.”
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“Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.”
-- Ludwig BorneSource : "Denkrede auf Jean Paul Friedr. Richter". Book by Ludwig Borne, 1826.
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“Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]”
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“Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.”
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“If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.”
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“Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.”
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“The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.”
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“You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.”
-- Ludwig Borne
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