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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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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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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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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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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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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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