Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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