Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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