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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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 in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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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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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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