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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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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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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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