Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho 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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Remember to live.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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