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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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