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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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