None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Remember to live.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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