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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

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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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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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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