Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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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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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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How 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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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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