How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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