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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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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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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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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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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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Collectors are happy people.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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