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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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