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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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