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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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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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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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