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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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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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