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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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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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Architecture is crystallized music.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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