The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThings which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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