You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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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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Remember to live.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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