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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.
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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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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