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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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