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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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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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