Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHow 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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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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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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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.
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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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