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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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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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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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