Santorini, Greece - 2006
1. “Accursed be he who plays with the devil.”
2. “Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.”
3. “Ah, to that far distant strand
Bridge there was not to convey,
Not a bark was near at hand,
Yet true love soon found the way.”
4. “All the arts of pleasure grow when suckled by freedom.”
5. “An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd.”
6. “As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear.”
7. “Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.”
8. “Far must thy reseaches go
Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
Thou must tempt the dark abyss
Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
Naught but firmness gains the prize,
Naught but fullness makes us wise,
Buried deep truth e'er lies.”
9. “Great souls suffer in silence.”
10. “His saying was: live and let live.”
11. “I feel that I am a man of destiny.”
12. “If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart.”
13. “I have enjoyed earthly happiness,
I have lived and loved.”
14. “I know that oft we tremble at an empty terror, but the false phantasm brings a real misery.”
15. “In the smallest cot there is room enough for a loving pair.” “It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
16. “I've lived and loved.”
17. “Keep true to the dreams of your youth.”
18. ”Life is not the supreme good, but the supreme evil is to realize one's guilt.”
19. “Life is only error,
And death is knowledge.”
20. “O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.”
21. “The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.”
22. “The heart's impulse is the voice of fate.”
23. “The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.”
24. “The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one.”
25. “There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
26. “The universe is one of God's thoughts.”
27. “The very curse of an evil deed is that it must always continue to engender evil.”
28. “Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.”
29. “Time is man's angel.”
30. “'Tis not the mere stage of life but the part we play thereon that gives the value.”
31. “Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.”
32. "What is life without the radiance of love?"
33. “When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
34. “Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him ne'er make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe.”
35. “Would you know others? Read yourself -- and learn!”
