There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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