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In art, the best is good enough.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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