Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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