For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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 world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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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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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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