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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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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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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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