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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 church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let us live, while we are alive!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
