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The history of mankind is his character.
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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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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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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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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