Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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 heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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