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True happiness springs from moderation.
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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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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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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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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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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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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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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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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