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 GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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