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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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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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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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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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