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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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