There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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