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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Precaution is better than cure.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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