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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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