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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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