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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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