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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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