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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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 light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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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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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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