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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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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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To have more, you must first be more.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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