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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not 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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Frankfurt/Main
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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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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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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