Christoph Martin Wieland Famous Quotes
Reading Christoph Martin Wieland quotes, download and share images of famous quotes by Christoph Martin Wieland. Righ click to see or save pictures of Christoph Martin Wieland quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.
Man blindly works the will of fate.
I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]
