To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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