Quotes by Johann G. Seume

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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
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People should always have something which they prefer to life.
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Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
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Music is the key to the female heart.