By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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