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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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