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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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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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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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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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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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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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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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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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