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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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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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