Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. - Leo Tolstoy
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. - Leo Tolstoy
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. - Leo Tolstoy
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking. - Leo Tolstoy
What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life? - Leo Tolstoy
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. - Leo Tolstoy
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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