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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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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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