"Man is created free, and is free,Though he be born in chains."

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“On the mountains there is freedom!The world is perfect everywhere,Save where man comes with his torment.”

“Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.”

“Life is only error,And death is knowledge.”

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“Was man nicht aufgibt, hat man nie verloren.”

“Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, Zu denken, was sie wollen.”

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"Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty — he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world — alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty."

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