What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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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.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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