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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.
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Destroy Mad Man Moral Opinion Suffering
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Achievement Greatness Himself Man
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Choice Deep World
There 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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Creation Past Philosophy
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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Feeling Herself Myself Philosophy
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Achievement Important
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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Love Ourselves View Walk
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Danger Solitude
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.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Deep Philosophy Soul
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Children Easy Hard Time Parents
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.
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