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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

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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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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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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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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