None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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