Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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