Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThings which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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