The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Who 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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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