Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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