The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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