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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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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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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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