All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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 know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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