We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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