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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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