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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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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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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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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The world remains ever the same.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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