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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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Precaution is better than cure.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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