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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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