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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center only through art and action are they united.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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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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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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