Christoph Martin Wieland quotes
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“The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.”
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“To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.”
-- Christoph Martin WielandSource : Christoph Martin Wieland (1861). “The republic of fools: being the history of the state and people of Abdera, in Thrace. Tr. [from Geschichte der Abderiten] by H. Christmas”, p.31
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“It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.”
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“Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]”
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“I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]”
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“Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.”
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“To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.”
-- Christoph Martin WielandSource : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Song 5, st. 30, transl. by A. B. Faust, New York: F. S. Crofts, p. 326, 1940.
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“An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.”
-- Christoph Martin WielandSource : "Close Relationships". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, transl. by Harry T. Reis and Caryl E. Rusbult, p. 321, 2004.
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“Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes”
-- Christoph Martin WielandSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.
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“The compulsion of fate is bitter.”
-- Christoph Martin WielandSource : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.
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“For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.”
-- Christoph Martin WielandSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Oberen, II. 19., 1922.
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“Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.”
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