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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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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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