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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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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The world is full of contradiction.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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