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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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