The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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And all must follow in my wake.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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