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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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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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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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