Everything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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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 greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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