The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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!
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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