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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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 suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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