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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 venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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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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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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