If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us...

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us...

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very...

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very...

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which...

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which...

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love...

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love...

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against...

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against...

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or...

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or...

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches...

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches...

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to...

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to...

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their...

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their...

Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be...

Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be...

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to...

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to...

Superstition is the poison of the mind

Superstition is the poison of the mind