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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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The solution of every problem is another problem
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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