There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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 intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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