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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFor a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve 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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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