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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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