Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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