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The people rate strength before everything.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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