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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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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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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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