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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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