Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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