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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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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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