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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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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 eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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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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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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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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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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