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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Importance Mercy Worth
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Love Perspective
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Ideal Love Marriage Reality
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Word
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Children Easy Hard Time Parents
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!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Desire Disappointment Enjoyment Happiness Heart Hope Ignorance World
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Goodness Photograph Poem Possible Reading Song
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destroy Mad Man Moral Opinion Suffering
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Ability Character People
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Independent Life Trust Yourself
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Purpose Slave World Yourself
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Feeling Herself Myself Philosophy
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Limitation Oneself
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Beautiful Nature See Tolerance