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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage. ↗

— Hesiod

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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. ↗

— Hesiod

#bad man #city #deeds #even #man

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. ↗

— Hesiod

#best #mean #moment #opportune #preserve

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#becoming #bittersweet #flowed #had #happiness

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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