Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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