Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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