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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The world remains ever the same.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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