To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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