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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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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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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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