Author » Heine, Heinrich
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While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.