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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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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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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 fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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Architecture is crystallized music.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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