I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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