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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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Frankfurt/Main
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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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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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