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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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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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