None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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The 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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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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