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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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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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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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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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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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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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