Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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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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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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