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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 true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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