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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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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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One lives but once in the world.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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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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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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Life's objective is life itself.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Time itself is an element.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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