Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Zum Autor"...And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment..."
"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."