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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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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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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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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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