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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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