Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Remember to live.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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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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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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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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