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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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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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