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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
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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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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