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Thou mockest? Tremble! the avenger's lightning bolts do not forever dormant lie.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

Du spottest noch? Erzittre! Immer schlafen
Des Rächers Blitze nicht.

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To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

What is the world to him now? a vast and vacant space, for fortune's wheel to roll about at will.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.

And less is often more, as Lessing's Prince teaches us.

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