In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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