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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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