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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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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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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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Blood is a very special juice.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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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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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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