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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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