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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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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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With knowledge comes more doubt.
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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