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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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