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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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