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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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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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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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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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