To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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