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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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