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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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