There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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