The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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