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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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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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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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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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