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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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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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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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One lives but once in the world.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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