Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBehaviour 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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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