If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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