Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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