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No one should be rich except those who understand it.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences.
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We must be young to do great things.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I will be lord over myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
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Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
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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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It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe