Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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