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A person hears only what they understand.
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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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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