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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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