The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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