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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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 will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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