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Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. - [Endurance] Fresh as the lovely form of youthful May, when nymphs and graces in the dance unite. - [Spring] 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. - [Sense] Oft have I thought--jabber as he will, how learned soever, man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience! - [Experience] Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people. - [Stupidity : Sublimity] The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity. - [Opportunity] 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. - [Silence] Thou mockest? Tremble! the avenger's lightning bolts do not forever dormant lie. [Ger., Du spottest noch? Erzittre! Immer schlafen Des Rachers Blitze nicht.] - Oberon (I, 50) [Punishment] For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift. [Ger., Denn was ein Mensch auch hat, so sind's am Ende Gaben.] - Oberon (II, 19) [Gifts] 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.] - Oberon (II, 24) [Experience] Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. [Ger., Zu oft ist kurze Lust die Quelle langer Schmerzen!] - Oberon (II, 52) [Pleasure] Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] - Oberon (IV, 59) [Fate] The compulsion of fate is bitter. [Ger., Des Schiksals Swang ist bitter.] - Oberon (V, 60) [Fate] What is the world to him now? a vast and vacant space, for fortune's wheel to roll about at will. [Ger., Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum, Fortunen's Spielraum, frei ihr Rad herum zu rollen.] - Oberon (VIII, 20) [World]
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