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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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