Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Author » Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.