A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Für einen treuen Freund kann keiner zuviel tun.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Daß du nicht kannst, sei dir vergeben, doch nimmermehr, daß du nicht willst.
A vulnerable heel does not make an Achilles.
Der Einsamste ist nicht der Stärkste, er ist nur einsamer.
A word is like a path in the sea, but a dead leaves a deep trace in the road.
Der Geist der Wahrheit und der Geist der Freiheit – dies sind die Stützen der Gesellschaft.
Castles in the air-they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.
Leben heißt, dunkler Gewalten
Spuk bekämpfen in sich,
Dichten, Gerichtstag halten
über sein eigenes ich.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Nehmen Sie einem Durchschnittsmenschen die Lebenslüge, und Sie nehmen ihm zugleich das Glück.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Mit Mühen und Beschwerden wird man allein fertig.
Aber die Freude muß man mit jemand teilen.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Sehnsucht nach Licht ist des Lebens Gebot.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Etwas Gescheiteres kann einer doch nicht treiben in dieser schönen Welt, als zu spielen.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Alle Entwicklung ist bis jetzt nichts weiter als ein Taumeln von einem Irrtum in den anderen.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
The devil is compromise.
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
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