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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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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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