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.
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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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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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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Who 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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