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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

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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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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