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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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