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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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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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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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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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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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