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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about 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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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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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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Let us live, while we are alive!
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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