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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Achievement Greatness Himself Man
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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Destiny Happiness Lost Man Reason
We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Doubt Growth Knowledge
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
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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Exception Greatness Himself Love Oneself
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Action Ignorance Scare
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Deep Philosophy Soul
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Knowledge Myself
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Character Laugh Man
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Literature One Liner Transformation
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
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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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man

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