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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Markus Zusak
    “It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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    Aristophanes
    “Късият ум е с дълъг език.”
    ― Aristophanes
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    Aristophanes
    “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
    ― Aristophanes
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    Aristophanes
    “Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
    ― Aristophanes
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    Aristophanes
    “Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”
    ― Aristophanes
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    Aristophanes
    “It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”
    ― Aristophanes
    tags: logic
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    Aristophanes
    “Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.”
    ― Aristophanes, Plutus
    tags: corruption, greed, injustice, intrigue, politicians, poverty, public-service, self-interest, selfishness, wealth
    65 likes

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    Aristophanes
    “Under every stone lurks a politician.”
    ― Aristophanes
    tags: humor, politicians, politics
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  • #10
    Aristophanes
    “[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.”
    ― Aristophanes, Lysistrata
    tags: alliance, disagreement, foolishness, men, quarrel, wisdom, women
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    Aristophanes
    “Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big?

    Lysistrata: Very big.

    Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too?

    Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout.

    Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come?

    Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.”
    ― Aristophanes, Lysistrata
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    Aristophanes
    “A man can learn wisdom even from a foe”
    ― Aristophanes
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    Aristophanes
    “Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.”
    ― Aristophanes, Lysistrata
    tags: drama, greek-literature, love, marriage, marriage-humor
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  • #14
    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: chess, daring, ideas
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: art, beauty, music, wonder
    2473 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I bid the chords sweet music make,
    And all must follow in my wake.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: insanity
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works
    tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
    tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
    tags: love, sadness, waste
    702 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: knowledge
    637 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    tags: emotions, heart, irrationality, romanticism
    471 likes

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  • #27
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

    (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography
    tags: education, encouragement, instruction, learning, school
    572 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: talent, writing
    407 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: growth, journey, purpose
    433 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
    ― Goethe
    276 likes



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