We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

Goethe
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  1. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

  2. But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.

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