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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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