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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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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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