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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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