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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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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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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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