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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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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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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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