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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  1. Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.
  2. Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor! Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
  3. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory wit…
  4. Am I a god? I see so clearly!
  5. No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
  6. Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.
  7. Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
  8. Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.

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  • philosophy
  • motivation
  • self improvement
  • effort
  • error
  • human nature

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