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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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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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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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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