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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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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 whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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