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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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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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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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