For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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 heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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