The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Remember to live.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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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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