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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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