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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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