The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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