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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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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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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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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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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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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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