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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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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It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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