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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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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collectors are happy people.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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