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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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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 are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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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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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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