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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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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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 history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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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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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Gray is the color of all theory
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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