He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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