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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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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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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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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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