Wilhelm Von

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    Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

    The true theater of history is therefore the temperate zone.
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that?
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)