On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFor a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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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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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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