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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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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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The solution of every problem is another problem
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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