WOLFGANG GOETHE 

 Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Whatever you can do or think you can, begin it. Boldness has Genius, Power and Magic in it. Begin it now.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain.

 Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

 All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

 Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

 There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

 We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.  

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

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