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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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Frankfurt/Main
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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