Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat 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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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