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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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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
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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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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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