Johann Gottfried Seume famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Johann Gottfried Seume
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Patience protects you from deception
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.
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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
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With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
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