Christoph Martin Wieland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Opportunity #Devil
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 Wieland

#Art #Believe #People
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.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Men #Skins #Neighbor
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Fate #Men #Dens
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.]
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Men #Experience #May
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Suffering #Endurance #Causes
To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Noble #Half #Way
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Illusion #Drag #Make Me Happy
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Long #Woe #Pleasure
The compulsion of fate is bitter.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Fate #Bitterness #Bitter
For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Reality #Men
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.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#People #Stupidity #Sublime

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