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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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.
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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Remember to live.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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