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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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