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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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