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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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