The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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