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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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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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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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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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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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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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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Collectors are happy people.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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