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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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 miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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