Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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We 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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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