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Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.”

51. “Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.”

52. “Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.”

53. “It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.”

54. “It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.”

55. “If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.”

56. “Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.”

57. “If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “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.”

58. “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

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.”

59. “The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.”

60. “Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.”

61. “Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved – all the arts flourish more gracefully – all the sciences extend their range.”

62. “Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved – all the arts flourish more gracefully – all the sciences extend their range.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.”

63. “The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.”

64. “The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt Quote: “Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.”

65. “Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

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