Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Remember to live.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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