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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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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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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Life's objective is life itself.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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