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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The aim of living is life itself.
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