Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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