We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Remember to live.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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