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Life is only error, And death is knowledge.

— Friedrich von Schiller

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  1. I am better than my reputation.
  2. What are hopes, what are plans?
  3. Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
  4. Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, l…
  5. Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter …
  6. On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.
  7. Who dares impede my progress? Who presume The spirit to control which guideth me? Still must the arrow wing its destined flight! Where dang…
  8. Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.

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  • life
  • knowledge
  • death
  • error

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