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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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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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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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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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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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