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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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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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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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