To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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