There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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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.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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