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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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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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