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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
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Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
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Literary
Frankfurt/Main
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Divides
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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