If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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