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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
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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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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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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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