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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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