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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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Errors belong to libraries truth, to the human mind.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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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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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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