Quotes by Wieland

7 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfährt. I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.— filed under Experience

Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Ge schickes. Man blindly works the will of fate.— filed under Fate

Des Schicksals Zwang ist bitter. The compulsion of fate is bitter.— filed under Fate

I. 15. Denn was ein Mensch auch hat, so sind's am Ende Gaben. For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.— filed under Gifts

Zu oft ist kurze Lust die Quelle langer Schmerzen! Too oft is transient leasure the source of long woes.— filed under Possession

Du spottest noch? Erzittre! Immer schlafen Des Rächers Blitze nicht. Thou mockest? Tremble! the avenger's lightning bolts do not forever dormant lie.— filed under Punishment

Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum, Fortunen's Spielraum, frei ihr Rad herum zu rollen. What is the world to him now? a vast and vacant space, for fortune's wheel to roll about at will.— filed under Zeal

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