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Wilhelm von Humboldt on Birthday

1767–1835 Germany

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When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself — nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

Friendship and love require the deepest and most entire confidence, but souls of a high character demand not communications of a familiar nature.

Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilhelm von Humboldt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.