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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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