Ludwig Borne famous quotes

03-28-2025

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Life #Truth #Sunset
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Delusion #Wiser
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Differences #Liberty
Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Sarcastic #Fall #Sarcasm
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Dangerous
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Lasting
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]
-- Ludwig Borne

#Rust #Literature #Bleeding
Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Liberty #Slave #Born
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.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Hate #Giving #Hatred
Nought endures but change.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Change #Endure
Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Women #Adorable
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Advice #Secret
You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.
-- Ludwig Borne

#Love #Lovely #Found

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