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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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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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