A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove does not dominate; it cultivates.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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