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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

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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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
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If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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