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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Blood is a very special juice.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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