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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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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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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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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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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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