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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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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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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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