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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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