Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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