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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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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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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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