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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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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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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Let us live, while we are alive!
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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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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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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