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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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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The aim of living is life itself.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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