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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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