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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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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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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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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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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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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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